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What is your favorite Holiday recipe:  I really like my Mom’s Sausage stuffing & my Grandmother’s simple stuffing with just homemade bread cubes, butter, onion and celery.  I also like these little biscuits with ham and swiss cheese on them that you bake in the oven.  For a few years on Christmas Day my mom hosted a “Christmas Open House” and these were served.  This was one of the things my brother and I could eat before others came to the house.   I think I should tell her to bring some next weekend to my aunt’s house.  I think they would make an excellent Black Friday breakfast before shopping

Ham & Swiss Biscuits (sorry no exact amts of anything here-I will try getting these)

• Slices of Ham (like a pound package from the deli)
• Slices of Swiss Cheese (prepackaged works too)
• tub of Land of Lakes soft butter or whatever softbutter you like
• Poppy Seeds (1-2 tablespoons)
• 2 packages of dinner rolls like from Pepperidge Farms
• squirt of Yellow Mustard or Dijon mustard
• Worchester Sauce (1-2 teaspoons)
• chopped/minced onions (1-2 tablespoons optional)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix together in a bowl the butter, mustard, 1 tablespoon of PoppySeeds, 1 teaspoon of Worchester Sauce, onions, then set aside (add more poppy seeds, Worchester, and Onions to your preferance)
3. slice the dinner rolls in half to make like a sandwich
4. spread on each side of the rolls some of the butter mixture
5. Then either layer the ham and swiss on the rolls (or you can dice up up the ham/swiss and then put on rolls) If using thin sliced ham use two slices.
6. Put lid of roll on
7. Precut all the rolls before baking
8. Bake for 15 -20 minutes to get the cheese/ham butter mixture bubbly and yummy. The outside of the rolls should be toasted
9. Take out and let cool for a few minutes
10. ENJOY!

These are really a kinda of put together as you go receipe.  They are great rewarmed in the microwave too.  We often make several batches and eat throughout the day as they are yummy snacks.          

Describe your Holiday table: When I was growing up Mom would break out the good china.  It was nice but I hated having to hand wash the glasses etc.  Hey I was a teenager, we complained, right?   Since I have been going to my Grandma’s friend’s  house the past 3 years for Christmas Eve dinner, they use styrofoam trays that are divided.  It kinda of cracked me up the first year I was there and eating from a tray and not a china plate-but honestly it didn’t matter because everyone was having a great time. It was also so simple and easy to clean up so we could move on to the gift opening time!

Biggest holiday cooking disaster: I am pretty sure (while knocking on wood)  I haven’t ever really had a holiday cooking disaster. I will say that I am often in charge of making the green bean casserole because when my mom makes it is often too “soupy” so it is kinda of a run joke in the house. Right, Mom?     One year though my aunt’s oven died on Thanksgiving and luckily she had the keys to the next door neighbor’s house and they were gone (she was petsitting) so she cooked the meal over there.  I wasn’t there that year for some reason-I think this is one of the reasons she now prepares everything for Thanksgiving basically on Wednesday for fear of disasters.